Classic or dud: Answer Records

I still don't entirely understand the question (what is it that's supposed to be 'doing the rounds'?), but that's par for the course.

Well, I heard ole Neil put her down.

Well, I hope Neil Young will remember

A southern man don't need him around anyhow. " Surely this does little to promote the cause of the southern man? It sounds like some kind of petulant playground 'ner ner ne ner ner'. Kind of like those bumper stickers that say things like "THIS IS THE USA - IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, LEAVE"

robin, i'm interested. 'sweet home alabama' has american ruralist overtones, and fits that whole anti-federalist thing fairly easy. ie - as you stated, 'the bush mindset'.

you've argued against the easy stereotyping of rural britain. i'd be interested on your take re: america

I like the idea of Skynyrd telling Neil Young to go to hell, but the way they did it was pretty stupid, basically telling anyone who has any criticism of some aspect of the South to go fuck themselves.

'eric b. is president was originally supposed to be an answer to some janet jackson tune but was changed around.

remember when fugees dissed jeru on 'zealots' with that line about 'no matter who you damage you're a false prophet'? he tried to come back with some answer to that, but was still really genuinely sad about it.

dimples d did a response to 'sucker mcs' called 'sucker djs' but i've never heard it.

Gareth: I don't *just* dislike "Sweet Home Alabama" because of the connotations, I also dislike its tedious boring rock sound, though the lyrics turn it, for me, from ignorable into contemptible. You do, however, make a very good point, to which my answer is that I accept that ethos (Bush is merely the most high-profile person right now associated with it) as being historically the imposed, dominant ethos of the South, but I don't think that *everyone* there subscribes to it, or ever did.

Just as my acknowledgement of the existence of the Countryside Alliance set doesn't detract from my admiration of progressive rural thinkers in the UK, so my acknowledgement of the George Wallace thing doesn't detract from my admiration of those who have opposed it and taken a more liberal approach, especially when it was at its most intense. Actually, one of my objections to the current direction of the Tory party is its move away from the relatively calm, gentle ruralism of old (Major's view of England was obviously ridiculously backward but I never felt threatened by him as I sometimes do by Hague) to an aggressive, defensive approach reminiscent of the American South and epitomised by the Tony Martin thing. You could say, though, they've got more protectionist as the old culture has declined and died; you can always feel more secure when the liberals have not yet made a serious impact (cf Britain in the 50s, or the South before the civil rights movements really got started). But obviously Lynyrd Skynyrd's own politics were nowhere near as far to the right as those that dominated the South until, I guess, the 60s.

The Showstopper, but Supernature aka Salt n Pepa was an answer to Doug E Fresh's The Show, Big Butt by Bobby Jimmy & the Critters was an answer/parody of Big Mouth by Whodini, Ooh! Veronica by the Glamour Girls answered Veronica by the Bad Boys. Seems like Supersonic by JJ Fad was an answer to some Roxanne Shante song, though I may be wrong.

Vicki Anderson's Too Tough for Mr Big Stuff was an answer to Mr Big Stuff, whoever sang that. Now that I think about it, lots of Vicki Anderson's (and other of James Brown's stable of female singers) stuff was answers to James Brown songs.

This song was on Top of the Pops 2 five minutes ago. I wasn't aware of its existence until now. I was thinking "This song's nicked the music from Billie Jean" before I started listening to the lyrics.

Most insensitive answer, to Daddy's Home by Shep & the Limelites: Daddy's Going Away Again by the Harps.

I love answer records.

dimples d did a response to 'sucker mcs' called 'sucker djs' but i've never heard it.

this song is awesome, especially the earlier version without the 'i dream of jeannie' samples, just a really heavy 808. did she record anything else? she reminds me a little of sweet tee.